The Big 12 is in its 30th football season, 20 years after last winning a national championship and now in a much different era of the game than when the conference started.

Like many 30-year-olds, the league has gotten bigger while going through plenty of ups and downs. There have already been some this season.

TCU provided a much better finish to the Big 12's holiday weekend than how it began. The Horned Frogs won 48-14 at North Carolina to spoil Bill Belichick's debut in a prime-time Labor Day game highly anticipated because of the 73-year-old coach who won six Super Bowl titles before his first college game.

“Obviously, he has been a great NFL coach, props to him," TCU quarterback Josh Hoover said. “But I’m just out here playing football and doing my job playing against North Carol

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